Four Day Gap -- Time Management Works!

Even on vacation I can't manage my (minimal) schedule; clearly I'm still trying to do too much.

Today we helped coat the garden in leaves so as to block out weeds and allow only the garden plants light. I don't know how well this'll work out, though, because of the presence of weeds throughout the leaves themselves--will they actually die out or will this just protect them and make them near impossible to destroy later?

We also painted those chairs again. The first time there were some grains of sand and so forth stuck to them by the end, so we (oddly enough) sanded them down a bit to repaint them. They'll get some finishing touches later this week, after which we await Christian's completion of a couple of nice outdoor tables (and some warmer evening weather) so we can eat outside ^^

Not too much else on the agenda today; I didn't end up going for a bike ride, but at least the tires are now inflated, so we can use them when we want. I'd tried to repair the pump, and succeeded with my twine-and-tape repairs, but the thing still wasn't sturdy enough to inflate the tires all that quickly. They were inflated by Kenny, the love (fiancé?) of Élodie (sp?) [who is in turn the daughter of Christian], when the two visited this weekend.

Also this weekend, we had twelve Canadians staying here. They're accents are nasally, and even my hosts had trouble understanding their French. That's pretty much all I've got to say about the Canadians.

Wasn't able to make it to church yesterday, so it rained. Alright, maybe the relationship between the two facts isn't causal, but it did in fact rain all day yesterday. All day. No lie. Chez Jacques, one of Christian's friends (whom he's known for 40 years or so?), the road was washed out and his tools (he's also doing some serious renovations) were drenched and caught in the torrential flood. Further evidence for the law that torrents will be the end of it all. (Don't get it? Ask someone under 25. Still don't get it? Google's easy, you lazy bum.)

I'm not sure I've anything else much to write about just now. Maybe the next post will even have those character descriptions.

TTFN!

Oh, PS, there're fresh photos uploaded to Google Web Albums as of this morning or yesterday or some otherwise recent time.